HMC Botball 2004

Botball Team Progress Reports

• (1/28/04) Report 1: Introduction to the Problem
  
• (2/18/04) Report 2: Equipment Checks and Scoring Strategies
  
• (2/18/04) Report 3: Prototype Construction
  
• (3/12/04) Report 4: Prototype Construction Wrapup
  
• (3/12/04) Report 5: Final Report 1
  
• (3/12/04) Report 6: Final Report Writeup
  

Documentation

• MIT Handy Board and Interactive C documentation[4]. For more information on the Handy Board, see the Handy Board Home Page. Interactive C is used to program the Handy Board. It's a stripped-down C subset. For more information on Interactive C, see Newton Labs.
• The NotQuiteC tutorial, user's manual, and programmer's guide. NotQuiteC is a different stripped-down C which is used with the Lego Mindstorms RCX Computer. Third-party info on the RCX can also be found at lugnet.com.
• Fred Martin's Art of Lego. Martin is the inventor of the Handy Board and Mindstorm.

References

0. Collegiate Botball Rules - 2004
1. Horswill, Ian The Polly System.
2. Brooks, Rodney Achieving Artificial Intelligence Through Building Blocks, MIT AI LAB, Memo 889, May, 1986.
3. Botball Kit Part List.
4. Handy Board and Interactive C Documentation.
5. Vaughn, Richard et al. Experiments in Automatic Flock Control. Publication details unknown.
6. Nourbakhsh, Illah et al. Dervish: An Office Navigating Robot. AI Magazine, Summer 1995, pp. 53-60.
7. Dellaert, Frank et al. Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots. Publication details unknown.